2010/1/28 Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>:
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> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> with actualised oids
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> I'm checking the patch for commit, and have a couple of comments.
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> * I think we cannot cache the delimiter at the first call.
> For example,
> SELECT string_agg(elem, delim)
> FROM (VALUES('A', ','), ('B', '+'), ('C', '*')) t(elem, delim);
> should return 'A+B*C' rather than 'A,B,C'.
no I dislike it. This using is nonsense.
Regards
Pavel
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> * Can we use StringInfo directly as the aggregate context instead of
> StringAggState? For the first reason, we need to drop 'delimiter' field
> from struct StringAggState. Now it has only StringInfo field.
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> * We'd better avoiding to call text_to_cstring() for delimitors and elements
> for performance reason. We can use appendBinaryStringInfo() here.
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> My proposal patch attached.
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> Also, I've not changed it yet, but it might be considerable:
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> * Do we need better names for string_agg1_transfn and string_agg2_transfn?
> They are almost "internal names", but we could have more
> like string_agg_with_sep_transfn.
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> Comments?
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> Regards,
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> Takahiro Itagaki
> NTT Open Source Software Center
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